Shame Theory Research Paper

Shame correlates with crime in positive and negative ways. When a person is shamed in a negative way and not supported by the community can influence a negative influence on the person. This persons may not be able to become included in social life and institutions which closes many conventional and institutional doors but opens illegitimate doors which increases chance of committing crime. This is how the American justice system works and our society as a whole at times, such as the difficulty felons may have voting , getting higher education, getting employments especially government jobs, living in certain communities, owning hunting weapons or self-defense weapons, and much more because of the stigmatization they receive. Stigmatization
The justice system still needs to target this person but make them take responsibility and support, this person making there wrong right. Such as a graffiti offender might have to do community service of painting fences with graffiti on it. This is where places who use restorative justice comes in, they bring the individual into a community setting and have conversations on how people were hurt, and what needs to be done to fix things. If the victim and offender are willing they get a chance to especially communicate and figure things out. Shame should just come from institutions but from society as a whole and family’s. This shame will include gossip. Shame theory also different from other theory’s proclaiming offenders have a choice to commit a crime or not because of social, biological, or environmental reasons like other theories. But this is not a general theory of crime for all types but more of a theory for deviance. Communitarian societies do not label people as bad or give them a master characteristic but they point out they made a mistake and allow them to be forgiven if taken proper actions. This can explain low crime rates in nations such as Japan especially compared to individualist society like the United